Life of the Author........ PAGE i Unwatchfulness.................................................... Not considering the evil of anger.................................... Study the importance of domestic tranquillity 107 When you have given offence to be ready to acknowledge it.................. Remember that passion troubles the under- standing, and darkens the mind...................................... 112 Consider, that anger indulged may do you more mischief than he that offends you... 113 Consider the circumstances of the person who offends you ......... ib. Live under a habitual sense of the divine pre PAGE ib. Learn to expect injuries and affronts.............. 123 Pray for the subduing of your irregular tempers 125 Cherish good humour...................................... 126 127 Labour to have your hearts continually affected with the love of God towards you 128 Keep in sight the certain approach of death, judgment, and the eternal world................................... 131 Keep in view the example of our Lord Jusus Christ............. 132 CHAP. IX. ADDITIONAL REMARKS. Angry passions give evidence of human de Exhortation to cultivate a christian temper.... 144 Care to be used that the tempers of children be not spoiled by an improper education. 145 The aged warned against fretfulness and impatience...... Christian cheerfulness recommended; from the Spectator.......... Conclusion....... 148 151 156 INTRODUCTION. UNGOVERNED anger is a fruitful source of mischief to human life. Many of the scenes of public calamity and private distress, which strike us with astonishment and horror, have originated from this direful spring. It is this which hath overspread the earth with blood and slaughter: it is this which hath so often filled the poisoned bowl, loaded the murderous pistol, and pointed the assassinating dagger. It hath through successive ages furnished ample materials for the poet's tragic muse, and the orator's pathetic declamation. The wrath of princes hath embroiled kingdoms in war and bloodshed. It hath subjected nations to continual frights and losses, and made death and terror continually to walk about in their most horrid forms. Then what desolation B |